[RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 2011-06-15 05:43:43
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On 06/14/2011 09:40 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:18:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:quoted
On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:quoted
There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test matrix for no good reason.I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right
Except in this case it's not wrong. It was done that way because it was discovered a long time ago that restricting drivers that were not *inherently* limited to specific platform just resulted in more bitrot and nasty surprises for the users who *did* need specific things after all, even though the maintainers had not thought so. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.